What absolute bullshit, PC historical revisionism. Islam spread by fire and sword. When they conquered Constantinople they came in contact with Western Platonic thought and early science. Some of their Imans, the Mu'tazilites were impressed (with the idea that God was a Rational Being, who created all that exists around a set of discernible and immutable rules) and embraced this, and were able to hold sway over the Caliphs from 827 until the second year of the reign of Caliph Ja'afar al-Mutawakkil (847-861), when a rival, conservative group of Imans, the Ash'arites, prevailed upon the Caliph to have the Mu'tazilite position declared anathema, thereby forcing the Muslim world to, intellectually, remain in the 10th century.

This short period is called by the revisionists, "The Flowering of Islam". Very few of the protagonists of this so-called "flowering" were actually Islamic.

If you read any eco-left website you will see that these people absolutely crave the annihilation of the human race, and especially of the West. They have all followed the neo-Malthusian doomsayer John Ehrlich in asserting that it is not population per se that is killing the planet but population weighted by income, so that what becomes necessary in their fevered imaginations it the annihilation of the wealthier nations.

This green religion is the religion of pretty much the entire left. They have rejected Christianity and Judaism and their drive to embrace some religion leads them to apocalyptic environmentalism because it sits comfortably with their anti-capitalism (which also sees wealth as evil, and hence needing to be confiscated for one's own supposedly more moral uses).

Islam promises to destroy the wealthy west. At the same time its followers all over the world are perpetually impoverished, which appears to the green left as good, so they are sympathetic, in contrast to the bitter hatred they harbor for Christianity, with its love of liberty and for the capitalist economic system that Christian Liberty creates.

The Museum is run by leftists, which means they are virtually guaranteed to be green religionists. They would gladly promote Islam themselves on account of its anti-western goodness, and they would gladly let a Muslim write their display about Europe's history of mostly successful resistance to Islamic conquest. Would be interesting to know which happened here.

The Reform Club, c. 1915

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